Display carton for bottles



April 30, 1968 PIERRE LE coo DE. KERLAND 3,380,574

DISPLAY CARTON FOR BOTTLES Filed June '7, 1967 United States Patent 2Claims. ci. zen-45.14

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A- display carton for bottles, flasks, potsor like vessels having grooved necks, said carton being essentiallyconstituted by a rectangular sheet of paperboard or like material, andpreferably corrugated board. By means of five parallel folding lines,the sheet is divided into six parallel bands which are intended to formrespectively a horizontal top wall provided along its edge with recesseseach having the general shape of a portion of circumference extendingover slightly more than 180 so as to engage in the grooves which areformed in the necks of the bottles and which are inserted in saidrecesses. Each recess is preferably provided with a flared entrance, arear vertical wall, a base, a front vertical wall of lower height thanthe rear vertical wall, a sloping wall provided opposite to the recesseswith sheared openings designed to accommodate the bottle bodies, and aflange which is intended to be folded flatwise against the internal faceof the rear vertical wall.

This invention relates to a display carton for bottles, flasks, pots orlike vessels which are each provided with a grooved neck.

The aim of the invention is to provide a display carton for objects ofthe above-mentioned type hereinafter referred-to as bottles, the designfunction of said carton being to afford protection against shocks duringhandling operations and also to afford visibility over a large area ofeach bottle, especially for the purpose of displaying any inscriptionswhich may be printed thereon.

The display carton in accordance with the invention is characterized inthat it consists of a sheet of paperboard or like material andpreferably corrugated board of rectangular shape which is divided byfive folding lines parallel to two opposite edges of said sheet into sixparallel bands which are intended to form by folding along the aforesaidlines respectively a horizontal top wall provided along its edge withrecesses each having the general shape of a portion of circumferenceextending over slightly more than 180 so as to engage in the grooveswhich are formed in the necks of the bottles and which are inserted insaid recesses, each recess being preferably provided with a flaredentrance, a rear vertical wall, a base, a front vertical wall of lowerheight than the rear vertical wall, a sloping wall provided opposite tothe aforesaid recesses with sheared openings designed to accommodate thebottle bodies, and a flange which is intended to be folded flatwiseagainst the internal face of said rear vertical well.

By virtue of this particular structure, it is possible not only toprovide suitable protection of bottles, flasks or like articles whichare nevertheless permitted to remain visible but also to remove andreplace one or a number of such articles at will without therebydamaging the display holder.

In an advantageous form of execution, the material which is derived fromthe sheared openings is maintained attached to the flange and in thesame plane as said flange.

A better understanding of the invention will be gained from a perusal ofthe following description and from consideration of the accompanyingdrawings which show by way of non-limitative example one form ofexecution of a display carton in accordance with the invention.

In these drawings:

FIG. 1 shows a sheet which is intended for the fabrication of a displaycarton according to the invention;

FIG. 2 is a partial front view of the display carton after assembly andfitted with bottles;

FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken along the line llllll of FIG.2.

The display carton which is illustrated in the drawings is formed byfolding a sheet of the type shown in FIG. 1, namely a sheet ofpaperboard or like material, preferably corrugated board, of rectangularshape and generally designated by the reference 1. Said sheet is dividedby five folding lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 which are parallel to two oppositesides of said sheet into six parallel bands 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16respectively. The band 11 is intended to form a top horizontal wall ofthe display carton, and is provided along its outer edge with recesses18, of which there are five in the example shown, for the purpose ofholding five pots or bottles; said recesses each have the general shapeof a portion of circumference which extends over slightly more than insuch a manner as to form locking noses such as the nose 19. As shown a121, the entrance of each recess has a flared portion ii order tofacilitate the insertion of bottles.

The band 15 is provided with five corresponding perforations or shearedopenings 23 of suitable dimensions for ensuring that the body of eachbottle is gripped within each sheared opening. In the exampleillustrated, the sheared shape 24 which is derived from said openings ismaintained attached to the flange formed by the last band 16 of thesheet. In other words, the portion which is indicated at A and B, forexample, in the case of one of said sheared openings is not sheared butforms a folding line.

The widths of the different bands of the sheet, the dimensions of therecesses 18 and the dimensions of the sheared openings 23 are sodetermined that bottles such as the bottle 26 (as shown in FIGS. 2 and3) should be suitably held in the display carton by folding the sheet 1along folding lines 2 to 6 in the manner shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. Inparticular, the edges of the recesses 21 are adapted to grip the neck 27of each corresponding bottle whilst the wall which is formed by the band15 takes up a sloping position which leaves the bottles 26 exposed atthe front to a very appreciable extent so that said bottles can readilybe seen in the positions which they occupy in the holder and anyinscriptions on said bottles can in particular be read withoutdifliculty. The display holder also leaves the caps 28 of the bottlescompletely free, with the result that any inscriptions printed on thecap can also be easily read.

From FIGS. 2 and 3, it is therefore apparent that the band 11 forms ahorizontal top wall of the display carton, the band 12 forms a rearvertical wall, the band 13 forms a base, the band 14 forms a frontvertical wall of small height, the band 15 forms an oblique wall whichslopes upwards towards the rear and the band 16 forms a flange which isapplied flatwise against the inner face of the rear vertical wall 12between the bottle 26 and said wall. Moreover, the material 24 of thesheared openings formed in the oblique wall is located in the same planeas the flange 16 and applied flatwise against the rear vertical wall 12.

Each bottle is thus effectively maintained on the one hand laterally bymeans of the edges of the openings 23 and, on the other hand at thebottom both at the front and at the rear by the front vertical wall 14and rear vertical wall 12- respectively as well as at the top by meansof locking element formed by the narrowed portions 19 of the recesses 18of the top wall 11. By virtue of the elasticity of the material of whichthe sheet is made, it is possible it so desired to withdraw either oneor a number of bottles and to replace them in position without therebydamaging the display carton.

In an alternative arrangement, the material 24 of the sheared openings23 which are formed in the oblique wall 15 could be removed completely.

As will readily be understood, the invention is not limited to the formof execution which has been clescrcibed and illustrated and thatmodifications could be made therein without consequently departing fromthe scope or the spirit of the invention.

1 claim:

1. A display carton for bottles, flasks, pots or the like which are eachprovided with a grooved neck, characterized in that said carton isconstituted by a sheet of paperboard or like material and preferably ofcorrugated board of rectangular shape which is divided by five foldinglines parallel to two opposite edges of said sheet into six parallelbands which are intended to form by folding aong the aforesaid linesrespectively a horizontal top wall provided along its edge with recesseseach having the general shape of a portion of circumference extendingover slightly more than 180 so as to engage in the grooves which areformed in the necks of the bottles and which are inserted in saidrecesses, each recess being preferably provided with a flared entrance,a rear vertical wall, a base, a front vertical wall of lower height thanthe rear vertical wall, a sloping wall provided opposite to theaforesaid recesses with sheared openings designed to accommodate thebottle bodies, and a flange which is intended to be folded fiatwiseagainst the internal face of said rear vertical wall.

2. A display carton in accordance with claim 1, wherein the materialderived from the sheared openings is maintained attached to the flangeand in the same plane as said flange.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,505,399 4/1950 Hilton 206-4514FOREIGN PATENTS 819,995 9/1959 Geat Britain.

MARTHA L. RICE, Primary Examiner.

